Department of History

Overview

The University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley History Department
offers a full complement of introductory courses, including surveys of
United States History, World History, and History of Western Civilization.
Students can easily transfer these courses into general education requirements
and major degree requirements in the University of Wisconsin System and
in most private colleges. (See the appropriate institutional catalogues
for details.) Besides these courses, the instructional faculty teach their
courses based on their scholarly interests.

Department Members

Professor Berger teaches Western Civilization surveys, World History
surveys (both ancient and modern), 20th Century World History, Modern
Russian History, and Early Russian History.

Professor Berger’s research interests focus on social history in
medieval Russia. Specifically, her work examines various aspects of the
daily life of the household in Novgorod, Russia from the tenth to the
fifteenth centuries. During the 2001-2002 academic year she received the
Eugene Campbell Post-Doctoral Fellowship in History from Brigham Young
University.

Professor Berger is very familiar with university life as both a student
and a teacher. As a student she attended the University of WI-Marshfield,
Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota,
and the Institute for Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki, Greece. As a professor
she has taught at the University of Minnesota, Illinois Wesleyan University,
Brigham Young University, and the UWFox.

Steven T. Sheehan, Ph.D., Indiana University, Assistant Professor

Professor Sheehan teaches the United States History Surveys, World War
II, Modern U.S. History, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and labor history.
His research and publications focus on the history of popular culture,
consumer culture and the working class in twentieth-century America. He is currently conducting an in-depth study of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats.